{"id":2899,"date":"2016-06-04T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2016-06-04T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T15:40:13","slug":"iraivi-tamil-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=2899","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Iraivi\u2019 Tamil Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iravi\"<\/a>Cast the actors he wrote the movie for and it shows. Just like the director Karthik Subbaraj, the director of the Tamil film\u00a0Iraivi<\/i>,, most of the actors come from a short-film background and are now well-established actors on the Tamil silver screen. But while the other characters perform,<\/p>\n

SJ Surya comes alive for those who came in late, Surya is an actor, director and musician, (writer\u00a0\u00a0can be considered flashes of brilliance. Then he got into acting in his own films.\u00a0In a sense, it was as if he was waiting for another director to coax the real actor in him.\u00a0which is arguably the last good film he\u2019s associated with. And it\u2019s worth the wait. There are scenes where he laughs, cries and laughs again in the same shot, delivers philosophical soliloquies and screams enraged. And yet, none of it feels over the top. You get the feeling that that\u2019s how he is in real life.<\/p>\n

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The movie runs for 2 hours and 45 minutes. I thought I was in for an overlong movie with mid-film-boredom crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0I was wrong. It\u2019s not one story. It\u2019s linear only in the timeline of events. It\u2019s almost like a recreation of a chunk of someone\u2019s life. After the anti-climactic ending, one gets the feeling that life for the surviving characters isn\u2019t going to be \u2018boringly ever-after\u2019. The tumult is going to continue. There will be rage and there will be blood. And the cycle of betrayal, love, happiness and tragedy is going to continue with unabated virulence.<\/div>\n
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So here\u2019s the thing: There\u2019s extreme emotional upheavals, jail time, three major murders… and all through this, there is no suspension of disbelief. Even the murders you can sort of relate to. There\u2019s a scene between Vijay Sethupathi and Bobby Simha (the two biggest biggies from short-film backgrounds) where the tension is so palpable the cinema hall went silent. My heart was beat-boxing. Anjali performs beautifully in the little screen time she\u2019s given, but the director writes her predictably. \u00a0Ego, in the garb of machismo, drives the film. A knee-jerk reaction would be to categorise it as a film about women from a flawed male perspective. Simha reveals as much in his monologue to his comatose mother. But it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

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But all of the characters, including the women who are victimised, only seek happiness for themselves. And that\u2019s what makes it so real and relatable.<\/p>\n

The only downer are the songs. They\u2019re all good, but they just don\u2019t fit. The only exception is Manidhi<\/i>\u00a0that plays out in the end credits. The background music though is brilliantly bang on and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cast the actors he wrote the movie for and it shows. Just like the director Karthik Subbaraj, the director of the Tamil film\u00a0Iraivi,, most of the actors come from a short-film background and are now well-established actors on the Tamil silver screen. But while the other characters perform, SJ Surya comes alive for those who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinemas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}